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...ages ago. It definitely does have its hard times, but it is in essence a fun sport." Kendall is New Zealand's most successful female Olympian. She won the inaugural women's boardsailing competition at the 1992 Barcelona Games, and followed it up with a silver medal in Atlanta and a bronze in Sydney. In a small, sailing-mad country, Kendall has managed to remain a "golden girl" after almost two decades on the professional circuit. "There is pressure on me, but it's not intense pressure," she says of the build-up to Athens. "I don't feel like...
...balancing seems to have worked. Kenser received a Hoopes Prize for her senior thesis and the couple has invested in a condominium in Atlanta, where Heck is currently enrolled in the Business Leadership Program at the Home Depot corporate headquarters...
Ledecky wrote his senior thesis on the relationship between black civil rights leaders and white businesspeople in 1960’s Atlanta. But even this academic interest traced back to extracurricular involvement, as it led him to work with then-Dean of Students Archie C. Epps on the Harvard Committee on Race Relations, which studied the state of interracial interaction on campus and intended to address the question of self-segregation...
Even more detailed evidence of the obesity-sprawl connection appears in a new study led by Lawrence Frank, a professor at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. Frank surveyed nearly 11,000 people in Atlanta, compiling their body mass indexes (BMIs) and correlating those figures with the characteristics of the neighborhood within a kilometer of their homes, including whether shops and services were mixed in among the homes. He asked participants to keep a travel diary for two days to record where they went and how they got there...
...Nick put together a campaign it called Let's Just Play, which included not only on-air spots but also a series of events co-sponsored by the Boys and Girls Clubs of America in six major cities, including Houston; Spokane, Wash.; Miami; and Atlanta. Thousands of kids showed up last summer to participate in all sorts of physical activities, and the program is expanding this year to take in more cities. Beyond that, Nick is planning to give more than half a million dollars in direct grants to schools and other organizations. The money will help reinstate PE classes...